Planter



Nov. 20, 1928.

s. E. BAILOR IPLAN'IER Filed July 20, 1927 25 Sheets-Sheet 1 Il n W INVEN'IZOR 6/45 5 54/? ATTORNETY Nov. 20, 1928.

5- E. BAILOR PLANTER 3 Shoots-sheet 2 Filed July 20, 1927 IINVENTOR fiMaa f. fim/or ATTORNEY Nov. 20, 1928.

1,692,608 s. E. BAILOR PLANE ER Filed July 20, 1927 I 3' sheots shegg 3 f "INVENTOR 5/ 15 5, 170/ BY M ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 20, 1928.

UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PLANTER.

- Application filed July 20,

My invention relates to planters and its obect is to provide improved means for control ling the seed-delivering and the soil-disposing elements of a planter.

In accomplishing the objects named I have provided improved details of structure, the preferred forms of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a planter constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a side view showing the seed-delivering and soilfmanipulating elements in lowered position.

Fig. 3 is a side view showing the plow in raised position. 7

Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the hitch and tongue elements, through which the soil-disposing members are controlled.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail perspective view of the members provided for actuating the seed-delivering element, and means for engaging said members therewith.

Fig. 6 is an elevational view of the gears for actuating the seed-delivering elements.

Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of a novel type of gear block and sprocket, bemg a part of the means for actuating the seed-delivering element.

Referring in detail to thedrawings V The planter is shown as comprising the wheel-supporting rear frame 1 having a cross member 2, the seat support 3, the axle 4 supported in the cross member 2, and the rear wheels 5 and 6. A front frame 7 includes the side beams 8, the vertical standards 9 and a tongue 10, the frame 1 being pivoted at 11 to a hitch 12 which connects the frame 1 to the front frame 7 and the tongue 10. Carried by the frame 1 is a lever 13 pivoted 0n the frame at 14, having the hand-operable arm 15 and the foot-receiving end 16. A forwardly extending crank arm 17 on the lever is pivotally connected by a linklS with an arm 19 rearwardly extending from the tongue 10, the arrangement providing for.

the raising of the front frame 7, and the standards connected therewith, upon tilting of the rear frame around the axle by actuation of the lever.

The front frame 7 carries cross members 20 on which hoppers 21 are mounted containing dropper disks 22, Wheels 23 support 1927. Serial No 207.185.

the front end of the hopper-carrying or front frame 7; the front end of the tongue, as will be understood, being supported by the draft means, and so assisting in the support of the front frame.

Seed-delivery boots 24 are supported by the standards 9, and at the lower ends of the standards are furrow-opening shovels 25 and subsoilers 26, the subsoilers being positioned in advance of the chutes 27 of the boots.

Adjustable bracket arms 28 are secured to the standards and extend outwardly there from, and support the middle portions of covering wings 29, the forward ends of which are fastened to the shovels and the rearward ends of which are bowed to hold the furrow open adjacentthe ends of the chutes, tending to cause the earth at the edge of the furrow to fill in over the grain,

The rear wheels are aligned with the bowed wings and as the planter advances the wheels pass over the furrow to slightly pack the soil on top of the seeds dropped from the hoppers through the chutes.

A rotatable shaft 30 has its ends fixed in the dropper disks 22, the shaft extending across the machine, each end of it driving a dropper disk for delivery of the seed from the hoppers into the boots to gravitate into the furrows between the covering Win s.

I provide novel means for turning the shaft 30, and for engaging and disengaging the actuating mechanism.

The shaft 30 carries a gear 31 having a hub 82 sleeved on the shaft, the gear being slidable on the shaft and may be fixed in a desired position by a set screw 33. A gear block or gear cluster 34 is provided, having a plurality of gears 35, 36 and 37 to mesh with said shaft gear 30. The gears 35, 36 and 37 are all formed from a single casting, and all the teeth are of the same length. The gear block is rotatably supported on a right angular extensionor finger 38 carried by an arm 39 which is pivoted to a bracket 4:0 011 the 7 frame 1.

Integral with the gear block is a sprocket 41 in line with a sprocket 42 on the axle 4 of the rear frame 1, so that motion can be communicated to the gear blockfrom the sprocket 12 through. the medium of a sprocket chain d3;

The gear 35 ordinarily will have two teeth, the gear 36 four teeth and the gear 37 six teeth, so that the speed at which the dropper shaft is rotated may be varied, depending upon which of the gears 35, 36 or 37 is in mesh with the shaft gear 31. The gear 31 can be put into mesh with any one of the gears 35, 36 or 37 by loosening the set screw 33 of the gear 31 and sliding it lengthwise of the shaft 30 until it is in position to mesh with the proper gear. The structure is so provided that when the parts of the machine are in the position illustrated in Fig. 2, with the soildisposing elements in contact with the ground. the gear block is in contact with the gear 31, the sprocket chain enforcing the contact and holding the driving gears in mesh irrespective of which of the gears 35, 36 or 37 is the actual driving element, to actuate the seeddropping members.

When the rider in the seat leans backward, presses his foot on the foot-receiving end 16 of the lever and pulls back on the lever arm 15, he overbalances the rear end of the frame 1 and at the same time causes the raising of the front end thereof which, through the pivotal connection with the hitch and also through the operation of the lever crank on the tongue arm, causes the elevation of the standards 8 and the soil-disposing elements out of the ground, as shown in Fig. 3. The wheels supporting the front end of the hopper-carrying frame 7 are also lifted from the ground.

Since it is desirable that the seed droppers cease to operate while the soil-disposing elements are removed from operable position, I provide means for disengaging the actuating gear block from the shaft gear when the frame 1 is tilted to lift the standards. The disengaging means includes a bracket- 4 1 erected on a cross member 20 carried by the standards, the bracket being positioned in alignment with the arm 39, and the bracket having the slot 45 in which the arm 39 is received, so that the arm is supported on the bracket, as clearly shown in Fig. 5.

WVhen the frame is tilted as described to raise the ho pper-carrying frame 7, the bracket serves as a fulcrum. The gear bearing end of arm 39 is raised away from the shaft gear 31.

Figs. 2 and 3 show actuating arm 39 in operating and non-operating positions. It is shown that the elevating of the hopper carrying means raises the bracket 44. The arm 39 is relatively horizontal while the shovels are in the ground, the planter moving and the seed droppers operating. When the rear frame is tilted and the hopper-carrying frame is raised, the bracketin effect tilts the arm 39 so that its gear block is out of engagement with the shaft gear, and the shaft is deprived of the actuation by the gear block, and remains stationary, and the seed dropper will not operate.

The position in Fig. 3 is that in which the frame and other parts will be disposed in traveling to and from the field.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a. device of the character described, including a wheel-supported frame, a standseeddelivery element carried by the standard, means carried by the frame for actuating the seed-delivery element including a pivotal gear-supporting arm, means carried by the frame for lifting said standard, and means for removing said actuating means from actuating position including a fulcrum member supported by the standard, and engageable with said arm upon lifting of the standard.

2. In a device of the character described, comprising a wheel-supported rear frame, a front frame pivotally connected to the rear frame, a rotatable shaft supported on said front frame, and a gear on the shaft, means for actuating said shaft including an arm pivoted on the rear frame, a bracket on the front frame supporting said arm, a gear block rotatably mounted on the arm to engage said shaft gear, means for actuating said gear block and means for pivoting the arm to act as a lever on the bracket as a fill-' crum to lift the gear block from engagement with the shaft gear.

3. In a planter, a traction frame, a hopper frame pivotally connected to the traction frame, a hopper having operable parts on said hopper frame, a. shaft for operating said operable parts, a pinion on said shaft, means for rotating said shaft including a bar pivotally mounted on the traction frame, a' sprocket on said bar, a gear movable with the sprocket and engageable with said shaft pinion, and means on the frame for operating said sprocket.

4. In a planter comprising a pair of seed hoppers on the planter frame in spacedrel'ation, vertical dropper disks in the hoppers, a shaft for rotating the disks, and a gear on the shaft, a pivoted arm on the planter having a lateral extension, a plurality of integral gears rotatably mounted on the extension, any one of which is adapted to mesh with the gear on the shaft, and means for driving the gears about the axis of the extension.

5. In a planter comprising a wheel-supported frame, a pair of seed hoppers pivotally connected to the frame, a rotatable dropper disk in each hopper, a shaft connecting them, and a gear on the shaft, an arm pivotally mounted on "the frame, a plurality of gears carried thereby engageable with said shaft gear for rotating the shaft, means for rotating said plurality of gears, and means for fixing the gear on the shaft in alignment with any one of the gears on the arm.

6. In a planter comprising a wheel-sup- 'ard pivotally connected to said frame, and a [Ill ported frame, a pair of seed hoppers pivotalone of the gears on the arm, means for roly connected thereto, a rotatable dropper disk tating said plurality of gears and means inm in each hopper, a shaft connecting them, and cluding said gear rotating means for urging a gear on the shaft, an arm pivotally mountthe gears on the arm into mesh with the gear ed on the frame, a plurality of gears caron the shaft.

ried by the arm engageable With said shaft In testimony whereof I aflix my signature. gear for rotating the same, means for fixing the gear on the shaft in alignment with any SILAS E. BAILOR. 

